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Emojis and quizzes led the way at Social Media Week 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/sep/24/emojis-social-media-week-london-2015

Social Media Week has changed a lot over the past four or five years. What started out with agencies, platforms and brands (it was nearly always 90% agencies) creating mini pop-up events has now developed into something more akin to a three-day business summit.

But the industry continues to evolve as does the output of participants; you can’t get away with poor presentations any more. Keeping that in mind, here are my five key takeaways from Social Media Week London 2015:

i believe emojis have been very popular as a lot of people use it on there smart phone through social sites and text messages mostly to show there emotions or feelings or how they are feeling at that particular time and emojis is trending as each emoji has a different face relating to different people therefore been very popular.

TV must push back against Apple and Netflix, says Discovery boss

David Zaslav, who was America’s best-paid chief executive last year with a total package worth more than $156m, said broadcasters and producers should resist pressure to serve up programming piecemeal to the benefit of technology giants.

He told senior executives from the BBC, ITV and Sky, among others: “Apple is a fantastic company and there’s probably nobody better at building the right consumer interface. Netflix and Amazon and all the device opportunity, all these things are great.

“But the thing we’ve got to remember is every one of these things, and I don’t mean to be pejorative, it’s just a device.

I believe without netflix there would be no entertainment and without an iphone/smartphone there would be not source to watch these on as smartphones gives us a chance to interact/ watch movies and share our stories with people.

News Institutions.

The Sun

The sun  is a daily tabloid  newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded in 1964 . it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. This was a well known newspaper that mainly males viewrs were intrested in. There has been around 5 million viewrs and have had a ot of controversy,. they are on twitter and people keep updated on that rather than the newspaper most times.

Channel 4

Television broadcasting company

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982.

it was Founded in November 2, 1982, UK. the CEO of channel 4 is David Abraham and the Parent organization is Channel 4 Television Corporation.  It has around nearly 4 million viewrs all around the UK. In 2012 its total revenues were £925 million with 91% derived from sale of advertising. Channel 4 has many other shows that go along with it for example, channel 4+, 4seven and more4, E4 are some of them.

BBC NEWS
British commercial company formed on 18 October 1922.BBC combine global audience revealed at 308 million. By 2020 estimated 500 million global reach amongst viewers.BBC Global News Ltd’s audience has grown to 105 million with BBC World News TV’s up by 12 per cent, and bbc.com/news growing by 16 per cent.For the first time, television overtook radio as the most popular platform for BBC international news, and it is also the first time since the BBC tracked audiences for all three platforms – radio, TV and online (55m) – in English and 28 other languages – that they’ve all grown in the same year. World Service TV news content is now available in 12 languages. The BBC is available on tv, online, app. 

SKY NEWS

• Home
• Uk
• World
• Us
• Business
• Politics
• Technology
• Entertainment
• Strange News
• Weather

 Sky Channels

Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, Sky Art, Sky Movies, Sky 3D, Sky Sports

ITV NEWS

• Player
• Shows
• Guide
• News
• Sport
• More

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has also estimated that in 10 children aged between five and 16 have a clinically diagnosed mental health disorder, with the highest number - six per cent - affected by a conduct or behavioural problem.

Three per cent have been diagnosed with anxiety and one per cent with depression, according to the 2004 figures - while disorders such as autism, tics and eating problems make up less than one per cent.

The impact of Google

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? 
- As stated in the article, ' The Google guys have apparently sucked the lifeblood out of the media business by siphoning off billions in advertising revenue over the past decade or so.'  Google is often blamed for removing billions of dollars in classified advertising from the newspaper business, demolishing one of its key revenue pillars.More than $40 billion of advertising money has disappeared from the newspaper business. Google has prospered because it was an early adopter of a new form of algorithm-driven advertising, one that served the needs of many advertisers as well or better than much more expensive forms of marketing.

2) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?
- I personally do believe that Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs. This is because as Google have adapted so well to this new form of advertising that they have become more successful than any other advertisers and newspapers. For people who consume these newspapers, Google seems like an easier access which would be more convenient for them as they could just read the articles online on the internet or even on their phones instead of having to buy newspapers. Therefore I believe that Google is to blame for the newspapers closing. 



3) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.

Comment i agree with: 

"So what if they didn’t invent the Internet. They did figure out a good way to advertise on other people’s content without sharing anything with the people who did the work. They could have built a system that actually paid the content creators. They could have tossed in a microcent every time someone clicked on a search link. But no, they kept ALL of the money for themselves. And they still do it. They seem to think that Google News is a service. It’s just a leech on the hardworking reporters."

-The reason i agree is because it states how google is just keeping all the money for themselves which shows that they have taken over.



Comment I disagree with:
"Obviously, Google is not to blame. I don’t think it’s about blame. I think the Internet is incredibly poorly designed. Rather than being free, everything on it should cost something in order to compensate creators. We have a proven system for doing this through organizations like ASCAP and BMI. The principal of royalties for profiting from the content of others is well established. Google came along, and, at least in the case of Youtube, knowingly robbed content creators for years in order to build up the business. The ideal system would be one in which every click resulted in a nano-charge on your phone bill, maybe 1/1000 of a cent for a news story, for example. Sites like Google that link to other sites could also pay in very tiny increments."

-The reason I disagree with this comment is because it states that, 'The internet is poorly designed,' and that, 'Everything on it should cost something in order to compensate creators.' I don't think that the internet should be charging money on what you use it for because it eliminates the purpose of being able to use it for free. and not to mention it is not entirely free anyway as there is broadband costs anyways.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11867400/Facebook-is-working-on-a-dislike-button-Mark-Zuckerberg-reveals.html

Facebook is working on a 'dislike' button, Mark Zuckerberg says

Facebook's 'like' button - which enables the social network's 1.5bn monthly users to approve a post - has become one of its signature features

 This article is about Facebook creating a new 'dislike' button after its 1.5bn users have been asking for it for years. It is for the users to express empathy towards others in situations where the 'like' button is not suitable to use. 



' Facebook's 1.5bn users will soon be able to vent their anger in a new way after the social network revealed it is working on a "dislike" button.'

' “People have asked about the dislike button for many years,” the 31-year-old billionaire said. “We’ve finally heard you and we’re working on this and we will deliver something that meets the needs of the larger community. '

' "Not every moment is a good moment and if you're sharing something sad... then it may not feel comfortable to like that post, but your friends and people want to express that they understand and that they relate to you, so I think it's important to give people more options than 'like' as a quick way to emote and share what they're feeling on a post.'

' Facebook's "like" button - which enables its 1.49bn monthly active users to approve a post by someone else - has become one of the website's signature features.'

' "Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to say, 'That thing isn't good.' That's not something that we think is good for the world.'



I believe that the dislike button is not really necessary as most users of facebook, especially the younger ones will use it as a form of bullying or to put people down which goes against the whole point of it being created. facebook is not as popular as it once was and therefore the idea of making the dislike button may not be seen as a very exciting thing anymore. however i like the reason that they have thought about using the dislike button for, to show and express empathy. 






http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/social-media-mental-health-teenagers-government-pshe-lessons

Social media is harming the mental health of teenagers. The state has to act.

This article is about how social media is harming the mental health of teenagers, and in particular how it is affecting young girls.

'A new study has found that teenagers who engage with social media during the night could be damaging their sleep and increasing their risk of anxiety and depression.'

Teens are so emotionally invested in social media that a fifth will wake up at night and log on

'Research has shown that teenagers need 9.5 hours of sleep each night but on average only get 7.5 hours. A lack of sleep can make teenagers tired, irritable, depressed and more likely to catch colds, flu and gastroenteritis.'

'These days, I am always tired at school.'

'A separate study by the National Citizen Service found that, rather than talking to their parents, girls seek comfort on social media when they are worried. The survey also suggests that girls are likely to experience stress more often than boys – an average of twice a week.'

 Teens' night-time use of social media 'risks harming mental health'

 

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'It’s becoming more and more obvious how the pressures of social media disproportionately affect teenage girls. Pressure to be perfect. To look perfect, act perfect, have the perfect body, have the perfect group of friends, the perfect amount of likes on Instagram. Perfect, perfect, perfect. And if you don’t meet these ridiculously high standards, then the self-loathing and bullying begins.'

'What is really worrying is that time and time again, these studies pop up and demonstrate that the mental health of teenagers, especially teenage girls, is on the line.'

i believe that there is a lot of pressure of teenagers to excel in all aspects of their lifes in order to feel acceptance by their peers. i agree with this article that teens' mental health is being ruined by social media and this also has an impact on their school work which is not good.